Is China unhappy with Nepal’s Oli leadership?

Until last year, meetings between Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi were a frequent affair . There were times when Hou even frequented the office of President Bidya Devi Bhandari.

Hou did the same thing that Indian ambassadors in Kathmandu did a few years ago: go to houses and offices of influential political leaders of both the ruling and the opposition parties. In 2015, as the constitution was being drafted, former Indian ambassador Ranjit Rae would call for meetings with all top political leaders of the country to know what was going in Nepal.